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[Text in Liber XXXI and not in Liber CCXX is in red.
Text in Liber CCXX and not in Liber XXXI is in blue.
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23 67 275 272 1 1. 1 Nu! the hiding of Hadit.
  68 276 273   2. 2 Come! all ye, and learn the secret that
    277 274     3 hath not yet been revealed.  I, Hadit, am
    278 275     4 the complement of Nu, my bride.  I am not
    279 276     5 extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.
  69 280 277   3. 6 In the sphere I am everywhere, the centre, as
    281 278     7 she, the circumference, is nowhere found.
  70 282 279   4. 8 Yet she shall be known & I never.
  71 283 280   5. 9 Behold! the rituals of the old time are black.
    284 281     10 Let the evil ones be cast away; let the
    285 282     11 good ones be purged by the prophet!  Then shall
    286 283     12 this Knowledge go aright.
  72 287 284   6. 13 I am the flame that burns in every heart of
    288 285    14 man, and in the core of every star.  I am
24   289 286 2  15 Life, and the giver of Life;, yet therefore is
    290 287    16 the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.
  73 291 288   7. 17 I am the Magician and the Exorcist.  I am the
    292 289    18 axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle.
    293 290    19 "Come unto me" is a foolish word;: for it is I that
    294 291    20 go.
  74 295 292   8. 21 Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have
    296 293    22 worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper.
  75 297 294   9. 23 Remember all ye that existence is pure joy;
    298 295    24 that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they
    299 296    25 pass & are done; but there is that which
    300 297    26 remains.
  76 301 298   10. 27 O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this
    302 299    28 writing.
  77 303 300   11. 29 I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am
25   304 301 3  30 stronger.
  78 305 302   12. 31 Because of me in Thee which thou knewest not.
  79 306 303   13. 32 for why?  Because thou wast the knower,
    307 304    33 and me.
  80 308 305   14. 34 Now let there be a veiling of this shrine:  now
    309 306    35 let thee light devour men and eat them
    310 307    36 up with blindness.!
  81 311 308   15. 37 For I am perfect, being Not; and my number
    312 309    38 is nine by the fools; but with the just I am
    313 310    39 eight, and one in eight:  Which is vital, for
    314 311    40 I am none indeed.  The Empress and the King
    315 312    41 are not of me; for there is a further secret.
  82 316 313   16. 42 I am The Empress & the Hierophant.  Thus
    317 314    43 eleven, as my bride is eleven.
26 83 318 315 4 17. 44 Hear me, ye people of sighing!
    319 316    45      The sorrows of pain and regret
    320 317    46 Are left to the dead and the dying,
    321 318    47      The folk that not know me as yet.
  84 322 319   18. 48 These are dead, these fellows; they feel not.  We
    323 320    49 are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the
    324 321    50 earth are our kins folk.
  85 325 322   19. 51 Is a God to live in a dgog?  Noa!  but the
    326 323    52 highest are of us.  They shall rejoice, our chosen:
    327 324    53 who sorroweth is not of us.
  86 328 325   20. 54 Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and
    329 326    55 delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.
27 87 330 327 5 21. 56 We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit:
    331 328    57 let them die in their misery.  For they feel
    332 329    58 not.  Compassion is the vice of kings:  stamp
    333 330    59 down the wretched & the weak:  this is the
    334 331    60 law of the strong:  this is our law and the
    335 332    61 joy of the world.  Think not, o king, upon that
    336 333    62 lie:  That Thou Must Die:  verily thou shalt
    337 334    63 not die, but live!.  Now let it be understood:
    338 335    64 If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain
    339 336    65 in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-
    340 337    66 Khuit.!  The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these
    341 338    67 are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.
28 88 342 339 6 22. 68 I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight
    343 340    69 and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men
    344 341    70 with drunkenness.  To worship me take wine
    345 342    71 and strange drugs whereof I will tell my
    346 343    72 prophet, & be drunk thereof!  They shall not
    347 344    73 harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly
    348 345    74 against self.  The exposure of innocence
    349 346    75 is a lie.  Be strong, o man,! lust, enjoy
    350 347    76 all things of sense and rapture:  fear not
    351 348    77 that any God shall deny thee for this.
  89 352 349   23. 78 I am alone:  there is no God where I am.
  90 353 350   24. 79 Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there
    354 351    80 are also of my friends who be hermits.  Now
29   355 352 7  81 think not to find them in the forest or on the
    356 353    82 mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by
    357 354    83 magnificent beasts of women with large limbs,
    358 355    84 and fire and light in their eyes, and masses
    359 356    85 of flaming hair about them; there shall ye
    360 357    86 find them.  Ye shall see them at rule, at
    361 358    87 victorious armies, at all the joy; and there
    362 359    88 shall be in them a joy a million times
    363 360    89 greater than this.  Beware lest any
    364 361    90 force another, King against King!  Love one
    365 362    91 another with burning hearts; on the low men
    366 363    92 trample in the fierce lust of your pride,
30 91 367 364 8 25. 93 in the day of your wrath.
    368 365    94 Ye are against the people, O my chosen!
  92 369 366   26. 95 I am the secret Serpent coiled about to
    370 367    96 spring:  in my coiling there is joy.  If I
    371 368    97 lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one.
    372 369    98 If I droop down mine head, and shoot
    373 370    99 forth venom, then is rapture of the earth,
    374 371    100 and I and the earth are one.
  93 375 372   27. 101 There is great danger in me; for who doth
    376 373    102 not understand these runes shall make
    377 374    103 a great miss.  He shall fall down into
    378 375    104 the pit called Because, and there he shall
31   379 376 9  105 perish with the dogs of Reason.
  94 380 377   28. 106 Now a curse upon Because and his kin!
  95 381 378   29. 107 May Because be accurséd for ever!
  96 382 379   30. 108 If Will stops and cries Why, invoking
    383 380    109 Because, then Will stops & does nought.
  97 384 381   31. 110 If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.
  98 385 382   32. 111 Also reason is a lie; for there is a
    386 383    112 factor in finite & unknown; & all their
    387 384    113 words are skew-wise.
  99 388 385   33. 114 Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!
  100 389 386   34. 115 But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!
  101 390 387   35. 116 Let the rituals be rightly performed with
    391 388    117 joy & beauty!
32 102 392 389 10 36. 118 There are rituals of the elements and feasts
    393 390    119 of the times.
  103 394 391   37. 120 A feast for the first night of the Prophet
    395 392    121 and his Bride!
  104 396 393   38. 122 A feast for the three days of the writing of
    397 394    123 the Book of the Law.
  105 398 395   39. 124 A feast for Tahuti and the child of the
    399 396    125 Prophet–secret, O Prophet!
  106 400 397   40. 126 A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a
    401 398    127 feast for the Equinox of the Gods.
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